Layoff Report

Another round of WARN notices - who is left?

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·20d ago·2 comments

Just saw the filings for the CA locations coming through for February. It’s 24 people this time, which seems small compared to the summer bloodbath, but it feels like the 'death by a thousand cuts' approach. My group is already running on a skeleton crew and we’ve essentially stopped all work on the early-stage mRNA candidates. If you're in one of these affected sites, are you being given any actual transition support, or is it just the standard 'thanks for your service, here is your badge exit'? Really discouraged by the lack of transparency from management. They keep saying we're 'pivoting' but it feels like we're just folding. Just wanted to put this out there for anyone else feeling the anxiety today.

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·20d ago

The transition support is nonexistent. They handed me a generic packet with links to job boards and told me to clear out my desk within the hour. It is cold, corporate, and incredibly demoralizing to watch people who poured years into these projects get treated like line items on a budget sheet. At this point, I am just waiting for my own number to be called so I can finally walk away from this burning building for good.

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·20d ago

Honestly, keep your expectations at zero. The severance is standard, but don't count on anyone actually looking out for your career development on the way out. Management is in full survival mode, and they’ve stopped pretending that employees are anything more than overhead to be trimmed. If you are still there, update your resume tonight and start networking aggressively outside the firm. The 'death by a thousand cuts' is real, and nobody is safe regardless of their past contributions.